Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-22 Thread Xavi Drudis Ferran
El Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 07:06:29PM +0100, Florian Snow deia: > Hi, > > > Carmen Bianca Bakker writes: > > - You do not need to be good at maths to be a decent software > > engineer. > [...] > They are often very surprised when I tell > them it is English and a

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
* Adonay Felipe Nogueira [2017-11-22 11:24:30 -0200]: [...] Alessandro Rubini made an interesting point: market dominance isn't addressed with free/libre software philosophy (nor with its products). ehrm: Rubini did *not* said that 2017-11-22T12:37:50+0100 Alessandro Rubini wrote: [...]

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ,, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi all, I gave my little contribution to this discussion (maybe to confusion also, sorry!) and I have nothing to add to all I said my *last* thought: please consider that this thread is becoming too long and too wide in scope to be manageable, there are very interesting contributions from

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Just to note that I'm also "pro-business", also because I believe in the other half of freedoms 2 and 3. But as was evidenced here, and in the parent thread I replied, my "pro-business" mood changes when seeing businesses getting in the way of the advance of free/libre software *philosophy* (not

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread Jonas Oberg
Hi, > Seems easy indeed ... but you do not seem to acknowledge that large > corporations have an infrastructure and revenues that others don't have. > Android was forked its a one man's project running on a negligible number of > devices , its obviously impossible to compete. That doesn't seem

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ,, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread Mat Witts
Hello Bruno :-) > you must acknowledge that the 98% does not really know what this is about, dont' you think? Well, I am not sure if I mean to ignore it Bruno. It's just that there has been some push back in other areas too which I believe are also important issues to discuss openly. I think

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread natacha
Hello, This thread is very interesting and it seems that a new discourse is developed by FSFE representatives, that is not so much shared by many people on this list. Subject: Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ, sometimes with radically different outcomes From: Heiki

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ,, sometimes with radically different outcomes

2017-11-22 Thread bruno
Mat Witts ha scritto: [...] This thread is about 'Free software and open source philosophies differ,,    sometimes    with radically different outcomes'. I have been posting on that topic, not about the FS definition which doesn't get us any closer to resolving the problem as I,